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Is there a ‘left art’ of city government? A view from post-apartheid South Africa

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This book chapter reflects upon the post-apartheid moment in South African cities, opening a sense of possibility and a degree of agency in City administrative and political circles. It interrogates and frames what ‘a left art of government’ (Ferguson 2011) may mean, at City level, from the South African postapartheid urban experience. It examines successively the key role of intermediary bureaucrats in driving change; what ‘activism’ in an institution requires and entails; taking ‘porous bureaucracies’ seriously by asking the question of space and scale of municipal action; how to decipher where political choice lies within a complex process and institution; knowledge, meaning and capacity to act; and the challenges of institutionalisation.
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halshs-04493124 , version 1 (06-03-2024)

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Claire Bénit-Gbaffou. Is there a ‘left art’ of city government? A view from post-apartheid South Africa. Claire Bénit-Gbaffou. Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities. A view from post-apartheid South Africa, UCL Press, pp.387-418, 2024, 978-1-80008-546-6. ⟨10.14324/111.9781800085466⟩. ⟨halshs-04493124⟩
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